Pampulha Art Museum

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Pampulha art museum
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Established1957  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Location Belo Horizonte, Brazil OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Coordinates 19°51′07″S43°58′25″W / 19.851833°S 43.973722°W / -19.851833; -43.973722
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Website belohorizonte.mg.gov.br/local/atrativos-turisticos/culturais-lazer/museu-de-arte-da-pampulha
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Museu de Arte da Pampulha (MAP) at night
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Nu, by August Zamoyski

The Pampulha Art Museum (Portuguese : Museu de Arte da Pampulha), formerly known as Cassino da Pampulha, is a building that is part of the Pampulha Modern Ensemble located in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The building was designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer at the request of the then-mayor of the city, Juscelino Kubitschek, and is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site along with the rest of the ensemble since 2016.

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Construction

It is one of the buildings designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer, with structural calculation by the engineer Joaquim Cardoso, around the Lake Pampulha, in the Jardim Atlântico neighborhood in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, at the request of the then-mayor Juscelino Kubitschek in the early 1940s. The building is part of the Pampulha Modern Ensemble, which also includes the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, the Casa do Baile, and the Iate Tênis Clube. [1]

It was the first building of the complex to be built. [2]

I did this project in one night, I had no other alternative. But when it operated as a casino, it fulfilled its purposes well, with its marbles, its stainless steel columns, and the bourgeoisie displaying themselves elegantly on its ramps.

— Oscar Niemeyer

As soon as it was inaugurated, the city's first casino began to attract players from all over Brazil, transforming the nightlife of Belo Horizonte. As the person in charge of the house was Joaquim Rolla, the same administrator of the casino in Urca, in Rio de Janeiro, and of the casino in the Quitandinha Palace, in Petrópolis, the casino brought some of the greatest international music show attractions to Belo Horizonte. [3]

Burle Marx designed the external gardens, which are decorated with three sculptures (by Ceschiatti, Zamoyski and José Pedrosa). [4] Since the renovation in 1996, its facilities have included a library, souvenir shop, café, and multimedia rooms. [3]

Conversion to museum

The glory days of Pampulha Casino were short-lived. On April 30, 1946, during the government of General Gaspar Dutra, gambling was prohibited throughout Brazil. [5] The conversion of the casino into an art museum was proposed by the architects from Minas Gerais, Sylvio de Vasconcellos, who became its first director, [6] and Celso Pinheiro, who was its chief conservator until 1965. [7] The conversion was completed in 1957, when it was known as the "Crystal Palace". [8]

Collection

The MAP has a collection of 1,400 works, [9] including exhibitions of Brazilian contemporary art, which focus on various artistic trends. One of the highlights of the collection are the works by Guignard. Its collection brings together works by various plastic artists such as Oswaldo Goeldi, Fayga Ostrower, and Anna Letycia, works by modernists such as Di Cavalcanti, Livio Abramo, Bruno Giorgi, and Ceschiatti, and by contemporary artists such as Antonio Dias, Frans Krajcberg, Ado Malagoli, Iberê Camargo, Tomie Ohtake, Ivan Serpa, Milton Dacosta, Alfredo Volpi, Franz Weissmann, among others.

Renovation

Lateral facade of the Pampulha Art Museum Museu de Arte da Pampulha 1.jpg
Lateral facade of the Pampulha Art Museum

In seven decades of operation, the museum has never undergone major renovations, even with infiltration problems that date back to the breaking of the Pampulha dam in 1955. In 2016, the Municipal Foundation of Culture announced that in July, the MAP would be closed to begin a major renovation throughout the building, initially expected to last two years with a projected cost of R$4.2 million. [10] The proposed interventions need to be approved by the institutions managing protected heritage sites in the three spheres of government (municipal, state and federal); the first project was rejected and an updated version was approved in May 2023, with no set timeline of interventions and reopening. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Conjunto arquitetônico da Pampulha - IEPHA". www.iepha.mg.gov.br. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  2. ↑ "Museu de Arte da Pampulha | Portal Oficial de Belo Horizonte". portalbelohorizonte.com.br. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  3. 1 2 "Museu Pampulha | Cassino da Pampulha - Conjunto Arquitetônico e Paisagístico da Lagoa da Pampulha - Pampulha". www.museuvirtualbrasil.com.br. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  4. ↑ "Museu de Arte da Pampulha - MAP". Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  5. ↑ Museu de Arte da Pampulha | Conhecendo Museus | TV Brasil | Educação (in Brazilian Portuguese), 2012-08-06, retrieved 2023-02-15
  6. ↑ Baldow, Juliane G. (2020). O Museu de Arte da Pampulha e o Palácio das Artes: os equipamentos culturais e a difusão da arte de Belo Horizonte (PDF). Uberlândia: UFU. p. 41.
  7. ↑ "Benfeitores | Academia Mineira de Medicina" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  8. ↑ Gerente (2018-09-11). "MUSEU DE ARTE DA PAMPULHA (MAP)". Motta. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  9. ↑ "Museu de Arte da Pampulha - MAP". Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-01-20.
  10. ↑ Ayer, Flávia; Cerqueira, Pedro (2016-02-21). "Museu de Arte da Pampulha é fechado para reforma". Estado de Minas (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-10-03.
  11. ↑ Mateus | @eubrunomateus, Bruno (2023-05-15). "Projeto é aprovado e Museu de Arte da Pampulha passará por restauração | O TEMPO". www.otempo.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-10-03.
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